RLM Office Building in Berlin

[DavidIsby]

Soon after it was organized in 1933, the RLM set up operations in an impressive office building in Berlin.

When did the RLM move in?
Where was it?
What happened to it?
Can anyone refer me to any sources on its appearance? I seem to recall it was built to be impressive rather than utilitarian.

thanks,
David Isby

[ju55dk]

The RLM building is still standing in berlin. Just make a simple google search.

Junker

[Juergen]

Yes -

today it is the site of the German Federal Ministry of Finance.

Juergen

[Mikkel Plannthin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus

http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.d...tml?__nnn=true

Regards

Mikkel Plannthin

[FrankieS]

I wonder if there is any photography of Göring's office
in that building. Since he was so pompous i guess
his office must have looked quite impressive (like
also his Karinhall estate).
bye,
FrankieS

[ChristianK]

Hi Frankie,

look here: http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.d...ser__saal.html

Apparantly Göring was present at his Ministry only on rare occasions, so he had no real office (So says the current owner of the building, but to be honest, I can hardly believe this. Guess the federal finance minister uses it now, but they won't tell. ). What could be associated with Görings preference of representation though, was the "Grosser Festsaal". Nowadays it is used as a conference room.

Cheers,
Christian

[FrankieS]

Ciao Christian !
Thank you kindly!!!
Strange: a ministry without a chief's office, unbelievable.
Maybe Karinhall was his office ? ;-)

[Harold Lake]

ChristianK,

You have reason to be skeptical. The RM certainly had an office in the RLM building. The notion that he didn't is silly. And, in fact during the late 1960s I was told by a very reputable source, that Goring's desk was so massive and intricate that it could not be removed from his office without its complete destruction; therefore it stayed! It is plausible, even likely, it is still there; maybe under a sheet, or else disguised in its original "office" which no one today wants to say exists! Of course, all you would have to do is to add a new wall or partition to make two new offices from the old original and thus claim, with some truth, there is no Goring office!

[CJE]

AFAIK, he spent part of his time with his staff on his prestigious "Asien" train and shared the rest of it between Karinhall and his Eastern Prussia residence where he could do what he loved above all: hunting.

[RolandF]

Harold,
I´m quite sure you´re right. Göring surely had an official office though he may not have used it oftenly.
We have to consider that the RLM building was on the Soviet side of Berlin after ´45. Though the Soviets tried to eliminate any rememberance of the former Fascist owners, the Stalinistic Classicism was not that far from the bombastic Nazi architecture. So it was rather easy to rebuild the complex, eliminate the Nazi symbols and eradicate the memory of Göring´s office. The original construction drawings would reveal its exact position.

Regards

Roland